The first grade classes create a
silly picture that reviews and refreshes their learning from
kindergarten. The students use freeform and geometric shapes to
create their composition of people and an animals in the sun,
after observing and analyzing abstract artist
Joan Miro’s People and Dog in the Sun. Looking at abstract
art helps the students to realize that we don’t always
understand what we see when we look at art,
and that it is OK for art to be
strange and silly. Finally, the students review their knowledge
of primary colors using markers to finish their works of art.